Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Right-wing hack Lara Logan returning to 60 Minutes

Lara Logan and Max McClellan, the '60 Minutes' journalists who were
put on a leave of absence following their now-retracted report on
Benghazi, are set to return to the program early next year, POLITICO has
learned.

Logan and her producer, who had unfinished projects in the works when
they left in November, have started booking camera crews for news
packages, network sources said. Their return could come as early as next
month.

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Logan and McClellan took leave following
public pressure over an Oct. 27 report in which security contractor
Dylan Davies claimed to have been present and active at the Sept. 11
raid on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Reports later indicated
that Davies had told both his contractor and the FBI that he was not
present at the compound on the night of the attack. Logan later
apologized and "60 Minutes" retracted the story.

Despite public criticism and internal frustrations among some members
of the "60 Minutes" team, CBS News chairman and "60 Minutes" executive
producer Jeff Fager decided to stand by Logan. Earlier this month, he
held a meeting with CBS News staff in which he defended the 42-year-old journalist, saying that as EP he was ultimately responsible for failing to catch the mistake.

Ah, but it wasn't really a mistake, was it? Logan gullibly (and also willfully) went with the story because it fit her political agenda, and she wasn't about to conduct even the simple checks on her source that would have exposed him as a fraud. It was the right-wing narrative that mattered, not the facts.In any event, I'm not sure we should care. What with this bogus story and this past Sunday's shamefulpuff piece on the NSA, which essentially served as pro-NSA propaganda served up by the NSA itself through its gleeful CBS mouthpiece, this once-venerable news program has less than zero credibility. Having Logan back only proves the point.